SMA What's New In Your Stash?!?

[TimM63]

Arrived today.

The Airfix starter set is for a Starter Set Challenge. Using only what's in the kit plus one tool.

 

[TimM63]

These came in today, from the Megahobby sale that was posted here recently.
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I have the Ford GT in my stash and its fighting for Stash Queen status with the Tamiya Toyota GT-One and the NuNu Audi R8 GT-3

 

[Edbert]

the Ford GT in my stash and its fighting for Stash Queen status

I confess I'm intimidated by the "flying buttress" type bodywork from the C-pillar to the fenders. I suspect I'll get started on it this year, still working primarilly to finish the WIPs, or most of them as a priority.

 

[blacbul67]

Hmm, maybe it's part of the addiction.

I have a list on my phone of the aircraft in the stash, on order, and bucket listed.

When I'm at my LHS, I always make a point of looking at the odds and ends displayed in each of the sections: maybe I'll find just the right scale hose in the automotive for a truck, or some chain in the shipbuilding area that would be great on a vehicle, or an accessory like this, to add to a kit in the stash...

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It was unceremoniously hidden on a wall with orphaned parts and accessories, a sad puppy looking for a home.

LHS= Local Hobby Store?

 

[TimM63]

LHS= Local Hobby Store?

Correct

 

[blacbul67]

 

[Jakko]

What is wrong with that boxtop illustration? The right wing looks like it's half the size of the left … ?

 

[locomotive]

What is wrong with that boxtop illustration? The right wing looks like it's half the size of the left … ?

Oh thank god you noticed that ! I thought I was having a stroke!

 

[Pantherman]

What is wrong with that boxtop illustration? The right wing looks like it's half the size of the left … ?

It's OK, it only does left turns.......
Pantherman

 

[locomotive]

I've picked up this today.

 

[BarleyBop]

it only does left turns

Ha! Don't laugh, some Italian fighters were actually designed that way to counter the torque of the prop rotation! Can't wait to pop the top on my Macchi C.202 Folgore kit, to see if they actually did it in the styrene!

 

[Edbert]

I've picked up this today.

I've seen finished version of this little guy, RICHIE GINTHER! Even at 1/20 scale you've got your hands full, doesn't matter if you don't add fuel and ignition lines.

 

[locomotive]

I've seen finished version of this little guy, RICHIE GINTHER! Even at 1/20 scale you've got your hands full, doesn't matter if you don't add fuel and ignition lines.

Oh gee thanks.... that's filled me with confidence!

 

[blacbul67]

Hmmm no idea I can only think it's a processing error made when I trimmed the photo? I will try again... No the illustration really does look like that. Go figure

 

[Jakko]

Weird …

to counter the torque of the prop rotation!

If you've ever played the card game Wings of War, you'll probably have discovered that most planes get decks of cards with more turns in one direction than the other. That's to simulate the high torque of rotary engines, where the whole mass of the engine rotates just as fast as the propeller does, so it's hard to turn the plane against that but easy to turn with it.

 

[BarleyBop]

more turns in one direction than the other.

Sounds like me on the skating rink!

 

[blacbul67]

Damn you, I literally cannot look beyond it now....I was happy in my ignorance. Truly a case of A little knowledge being dangerous (to our need for symmetry)

 

[Jakko]

Sounds like me on the skating rink!

That would be a problem if you're better at making right turns than left …

 

[BarleyBop]

That would be a problem if you're better at making right turns than left …

Unfortunately,

 

[Edbert]

Unfortunately,

Just VPN to Europe.

Edit:
Belgium/France/Germany all failed to load, had to hop over to the nether regions to view...it is Olympic speed skating, left turns only.

For the Murricans, think NASCAR.

 

[Jakko]

Unfortunately,

I suspected as much after I posted it … you would need a VPN to the Netherlands, I suspect. But yes, as Edbert says, it's a speedskating video (shorttrack to be precise), where all the turns are to the left

 

[BarleyBop]

the turns are to the left

Yup! We had a speed skating oval down the street when I was a teenager... to most guys, it was something you had to cross to get to the hockey rink in the center.
But I loved it, it was a huge rink, to be enjoyed counter-clockwise with your best girl, so I was great at crossing my right foot over the left, not so much the other way!
And unlike the indoor public skating rinks, they never switched directions.

 

[Edbert]

So this kit, is clearly not new in my stash, it was produced in 1972-1974.

The boxtop was recently recovered by me, and while not new, it feels new 50+ years later. Notice the hole made presumably by a thumbtack (above the U in Wulf) used to stick it to my wall as a ~10 year old.

Looking at the artwork is a bit of a nightmare...He-111s, Spitfire Mk5 or 9s, and whatever the glider-winged dual engine thing in the back ground is. But it definitely appealed to young Ed.

I found it on scalemates, not sure what a miniart/hasegawa collab was about, but I bought it.

 

[Holz44]

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Clockwise rotating U-Control Line model..........................

 

[Jakko]

I spent the weekend at a model show, and even though it didn't have much in the way of trade (the emphasis very much being on "show"), I did get some stuff

Those ancient Profile books cost me all of €1 each, some of the other stuff was also marked down a lot so even if I have no immediate use for it, it'll be handy to have at some point. The box with the goggles in the last photo is because I've begun noticing that I don't see well up close anymore (I used to be able to read the writing on banknotes that was supposedly too small to read with the naked eye), and somebody was selling these things for ten euros, so I figured: why not? Five interchangeable lenses, three LEDs at the top, it might just work The two long, narrow packages are assortments of thin brass tube.

The A34 Comet I bought to build at the show, so it went from this:

to this:

between 12:15 yesterday and 16:27 today

I bought the Sherman because I've read good things about this brand-new kit, and also because it's surprisingly cheap — something like two-thirds to half the price of comparable Sherman kits, and even though the depth of the box is ridiculous (it's twice as high as that of the Tamiya Comet) there is a lot of stuff in it. Even two complete sets of suspension, but tracks for only one of them, oddly enough.

 

[Bob T]

Had to get some paint at the semi-local hobby shop, and this fell into my cart...Oh well.

 

[BarleyBop]

this fell into my cart

I have a couple of ICM Model T's that I want to build as the early inter-war desert exploration vehicles used by Bagnold, future founder of the LRDG.
Will be watching this build for sure!

 

[Bob T]

I have a couple of ICM Model T's that I want to build as the early inter-war desert exploration vehicles used by Bagnold, future founder of the LRDG.
Will be watching this build for sure!

Might be awhile.
Still struggling to finish the M561 Gama Goat, and I've been messing around with a Roden Junkers D.1

 

[locomotive]

Thats a great kit. I built one couple of years ago. Builds into a really nice model.

 

[Glenn S]

Had to get some paint at the semi-local hobby shop, and this fell into my cart...Oh well.

For some reason your post caused me to picture you grocery shopping with your mom when you were little. You were sitting in the kids' seat and the cart was getting filled up with bags of cookies and candy when your mom wasnt looking.